Monday, 2 May 2011

Books I bought in April, in my one and only excursion to a book store. I had to restrain myself, partly due to my husband and daughter's then upcoming trip to England, and partly because my birthday is in May, so I was saving many for my birthday list. Here is what I did buy:

I can't get either here in Canada, I've been trying for some time. I've already read Handling the Undead, review to follow shortly (it was so very good, too). I was so excited and pleased to see these! Can you see the bookmark in The Gentleman's Daughter?

Well. I have been busy compiling lists of books I want to read......and this isn't really more than an immediate list of what I would like to read this summer. Sad to say, most of these I'm waiting to be in soft cover so I can carry them around, so they've been out for a while now. There's all the Kerry Greenwood, Carola Dunn, Margaret Maron, Graham Hurley, Susan Hill, just to name a few, mystery series that I follow, most of which I have to read copious amounts of books to catch up with. Happily! C. J. Sansom....... Some of these I have been searching for quite some time now - Ghosts of Belfast, I'm looking at you! I forgot to ask Toby to look for this in England. This isn't even counting the Persephone Catalogue, of which I want to buy just about every book in it. The fun thing is, I will read most if not all of these books. I know this. So now it's like a treasure hunt: what will I find when I go to the bookstore, which books are waiting for me, and which ones do I have to hunt further for?

About Me

'book junkie', a writer and poet. Am often seen making lists of books to buy, or to get from the library; I have lists everywhere. My ultimate dream house has shelves everywhere for books. I have a dear family who puts up with my love of books, and 2 cats who lie on my books when I read them.

Chocolate quotes

How horrible it would be to live in a world without chocolate......Chocolate runs through my life like a comfort blanket; a teddy bear you can eat......I simply love chocolate. I adore it. I want it.- Nigel Slater in Nigel Slater's Real Food

Never underestimate the power of a word to change the world. - my own quote.

London - St Paul's Cathedral - photo by me

Favourite Book Quotes

"A book, too, can be a star, "explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.' " from Madeleine L'Engle's Newbery acceptance speech for A Wrinkle in Time.

She had no resources for solitude. (describing Mary in Persuasion)

In the next books I kept pushing at my own limitations and at the limits of science fiction. That is what the practice of an art is, you keep looking for the outside edge. When you find it, you make a whole, solid, real, and beautiful thing; anything less is incomplete. 'A Citizen of Mondath' essay, The Language of The Night, Ursula K. Le Guin

Olivia was a cartographer of imaginary places.- Haunting Olivia, short story, by Karen Russell.

"You've managed to make an enemy of Bufkin the monkey. Once he decided he needed to destroy you, you were basically doomed". - Mirror on the Wall"I've never heard of such a creature. What are his powers?" - Baba Yaga"He reads. He reads everything." - Mirror on the Wall- from Fables: Witches, by Bill Willingham